Brian S Caffo


Professor
Departments of Biostatistics (primary)
Department of Biomedical Engineering (courtesy)
Johns Hopkins University
Contact information
He/Him/His
www.bcaffo.com
CV suggestions/PRs welcome github, https://github.com/bcaffo/cv
Note that the version is better than a print version, since the graphs are interactive and I have to use a screen recorder to get all of the javascript to render in print well Live version, https://bcaffo.github.io/cv/cvJupyter.html

Part I

Summary

Brian Caffo, PhD is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He graduated from the University of Florida Department of Statistics in 2001. He has worked in statistical computing, statistical modeling, computational statistics, multivariate and decomposition methods and statistics in neuroimaging and neuroscience. He led teams that won the ADHD 200 prediction competition. He co-directs the SMART statistical group. With other faculty at JHU, he created and co-directs the Coursera Data Science Specialization, a 10 course specialization on statistical data analysis. He co-directs the JHU Data Science Lab, a group dedicated to open educational innovation and data science. He is the former director of the Biostatistics graduate programs and admissions committees. He is currently the co-director of the Johns Hopkins High Performance Computing Exchange super computing service center and past-president of the Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty senate.

Education and training

Year Description Institution
2006 K25 training grant NIH A mentored training program in imaging science
2001 PhD in statistics U of Florida Candidate sampling schemes and some important applications
1998 MS in statistics U of Florida
1995 Dual BS in mathematics and statistics U of Florida

Professional experience

Relevant professional experience.

Profesional activities

Year Activity
2005-2006 Publications Officer for the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association
2010 Founding member Stat in Imaging ASA Section
2010-2011 Secretary Stat in Imaging ASA Section

I usually try to create a JSM or ENAR session every year.

Editorial activities

Year Activity
2006-2008 Associate editor Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
2008-2010 Associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association
2009-2012 Associate editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
2010-2012 Associate editor for Biometrics
2011-2011 Senior program committee member for the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
2016-2016 Guest associate editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience special issues on Brain Imaging Methods
2021-2021 Guest associate editor for Frontiers special issue in Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Finance

I do NIH, EU, NSF ... ad hoc review panels whenever they ask me and I'm able to. This usually translates to say 3 or so a year. I review manuscripts for journals I like whenever they're relevant to my research expertise and I have done a few conference abstract reviews and chaired sessions for conferences I like.

Honors and awards

Year Award
1998 William S. Mendenhall Award
1999 Anderson Scholar/Faculty nominee for the University of Florida CLAS
2001 University of Florida CLAS Dissertation Fellowship
2001 University of Florida Statistics Faculty Award
2002 Johns Hopkins Faculty Innovation Award
2006 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health AMTRA award
2008 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Golden Apple teaching award
2011 Leader and organizer of the declared winning entry of the 2011 ADHD200 prediction competition
2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2010, awarded in 2011); The highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers
2014 Named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association
2015 Special Invited Lecturer, European Meeting of Statisticians

Publications

Publications reported in Scopus as of 01/04/2021. My total number of Scopus publications is 228. Below is a plot of total publications by year where each little rectangle is a publication. Hovering shows complete citation data.

Here are journals I publish in the most. Some of my favorite journals that I have published in less are JRSSA (1), JRSSB (2), JRSSC (1), Biometrika (1), IEEE TMI (1), JCGS (3), AJE (2), Brain (2), Biometrics (4), American Statistician (5), and Neuroimage Clinical (2).

I have published with 625 coauthors. Here is authors that I have had 10 or over manuscripts with.

Here's a plot of number of authors for each manuscript.

Here's a plot of my author position.

Here's a wordcloud of words in the titles (excluding common use words, in the shape of an axial brain slice).

Wordcloud

Here's the total citation counts of manuscripts plotted by year of publication. Hover over a point to see publication details.

Part II

Teaching

Advisees

To the nearest year from matriculation year. Includes advisees and co-advisees (hover over to see details).

Student exam participation

Excludes alternate.

Classroom Instruction

To the nearest year. Data Science and EDS specializations were with Roger Peng and Jeff Leek. Hover over to see instructor role and other info.

E-books

E-books are free and open access, excepting Methods in Biostatistics with R. For all books, student get all subsequent version updates.

Other

Research grants

Hover data includes, granting organization, mechanism and title.

Co-investigator and subcontract awards

This is surprisingly hard and likely incomplete. Here's the best I could do for title and mechanism.

Here's my most frequent grant PIs.

Here's a breakdown of grant mechanisms.

Here's grants by the natural log base 10 of the yearly direct costs and start time.

Academic service

Here's my major service roles by year rounded to the nearest year by the major organizational group that it represents. Also, I serve on ad hoc tenure and promotion committees whenever asked (not that often, maybe once every other year or so).

Seminars

Here's a plot of the invited seminars I've logged. The list with presentation files can be found here.

Here's wordclouds of seminar titles and seminar places.

Wordcloud Wordcloud

CV todo